Multiple Forms

[auerbach]

I am setting up a site for a firm with about 50 employees. There will be a
bio page for each employee. Rather than providing e-mail addresses for the
spam harvesters, I plan to put a small "mail-to" form on each bio page.

I am using FP 2003 and DWTs. I plan to include a FrontPage feedback form on
the DWT I will be using for the employee biography pages, making sure the
form is editable. When I apply the DWT to each page, I will then go to the
resulting employee pages and for each page provide a unique e-mail address
to which that employee's feedback message will be sent.

Will this work? I don't have to create unique back-end data files for each
feedback form, do I?

TIA,

Alex

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

That will still provide the spam robots with the email address, you need to use a database and
server-side scripting to truly hide the email address.

And with server-side scripting, you only need to create 1 bio page, 1 form, 1 confirmation page, not
50 for each.

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[auerbach]

Thomas,

Thanks. I may need to use a "sacrificial" e-mail address that will
inevitably attract spam, but which will be viewed by an administrative
assistant, leaving the "real" e-mail address off the website.

I am not familliar with server-side scripting. Are you saying that using the
FrontPage wizard to build simple mailto forms is not an option at all
(ignoring the spam issue for the moment)?

Alex

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

1. You would have to create 50 forms, and if you use a "sacrificial" email address, then the Admin.
Assistant would have to forward the emails to the individuals. The individual would then not be able
to directly click reply to sender in order to reply, since that would sent the reply back to the
Admin. Assistant.

2. If the user doesn't have a email application associated with their browser, then they will not be
able to use a form processed via mailto action, second, I believe AOL user also are not able to use
a form that is processed via mailto action.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

If hosted on Windows IIS, using ASP to process the forms should be easy to set up.

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